End of Year Book Survey

I’ve been trying to think of a way to “Wrap Up” my year in reading when I stumbled across this survey created by Jamie @ The Perpetual Page-Turner. It was the perfect way to give a rundown of what I read this year! Make sure to head over to Jamie’s post where you can actually link up your own answers to the survey.

Covers = Goodreads

Fun drinking game for your New Years celebration: 1) Take a shot every time I mention The Raven Cycle 2) Try not to pass out and die!!!!!!

Number Of Books You Read: 127 which sounds a lot more impressive than it really is the majority of those were short stories, novellas and graphic novels. In regards to actual novels it was probably around 50 which I’m still really proud of because this is my first year reading after like 3 years of not reading anything except comics so.Number of Re-Reads: 1 – I read Gemina and then listened to the audiobook.Genre You Read The Most From: Fantasy which is surprising because normally it’s horror/thriller.

Best Book You Read In 2016?

Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t?

Like above I won’t go into this too much because I already mentioned them in my previous post!

Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read?

The Yellow Wallpaper and The Book Thief are from two genres that intimidate me so much: classics and historical. However, I loved both of them so so much. I was also expecting Night Film to be your typical mystery/thriller book but it was so so so much more. I read another book by the same author of Living Dead Girl and it was pretty terrible so I wasn’t expecting much, but this turned out to be one of the most brutally honest and hard hitting reads ever.

OTP OF THE YEAR (you will go down with this ship!)

Favorite Non-Romantic Relationship Of The Year

I’m repeating so many answers in this, but I don’t care. Again, it’d be Blue and her Raven Boys and the Six of Crows kids.

Favorite Book You Read in 2016 From An Author You’ve Read Previously

Best Book You Read In 2016 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure

AND IT WAS 100% WORTH IT

Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2016?

Ok. So I’m like 10 years older than most of the characters I read about. So this is kind of a cheat answer but maybe not because I did read the FBAWTFT script this year, BUT

LOOK AT THIS ANGEL!!!! We’re gonna get married and raise a herd of Mooncalves together. Sorry Tina.

Best 2016 debut you read?

I’m never gonna shut up about this book until every person in the entire universe has read it.

Best Worldbuilding/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year?

Book That Put A Smile On Your Face/Was The Most FUN To Read?

Book That Made You Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2016?

“Nearly cry” lmao

Honestly every book I read makes me cry, but these were some stand outs.

Hidden Gem Of The Year?

Book That Crushed Your Soul?

See the books that made me cry.

Most Unique Book You Read In 2016?

Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?

This book made me mad because it deals with sexual assault and was extremely realistic and I just kept thinking about what people have to go through and how victims are blamed/shamed whilst the attacker can just get away with it.

Honestly I didn’t know that Gr right click feature.My life will be so easy now 🙂 And I think you got me to read comics and my first ever comic was Stereotypical Freaks and then I read Montress.I loved them both ❤ So thank you 🙂

Thanks so much for the shout-out Lauren ❤ I love your blog and I'm so glad that we met each other through blogging!
Aaaand how did I not know about this Goodreads extension?! I could've saved so much time hahaha Well at least I have it now 😛
I'm hoping to read Simon vs in 2017 too. I bought it a few months ago and thought I'd read it before the end of the year but that didn't happen (no surprise there with my millions of books, haha). I really want to read Last Seen Leaving, too. I've heard a lot of great things about it plus I've been loving mysteries/thrillers lately (and literally any book is better if it has LGBTQIAP characters hahaha).
Glad to see you had a good reading year and I hope 2017 is even better! 🙂

I bought it at the start of the year and was like “I’m gonna read it this month” every month 😂 it’s definitely my #1 priority for 2017 though! Hopefully we’ll both love it! Last Seen Leaving was so good! Everything I want in a thriller. I hope you enjoy that one too!!

Aww, thanks for the mention! I’ve just added Homegoing to my TBR, it looks incredible. Love that you named Newt as your newest fictional crush, I just ADORE him <3<3 Loving your drinking game idea too – if I played it with A Court of Mist and Fury on my own end of year survey I'd be incredibly drunk also.

No worries ♥♥ Yay!! It’s such a beautiful and important read. I really hope you love it. He’s the cutest and the fact that he’s a Huffepuff just makes it even better 😍 Hahaha!! Even though last year was pretty terrible at least we both have a book that we loved to pieces 😀

I saw this survey on Jamie’s blog and I’m going to be taking part this year as well. I actually saw it last year but by then I’d already posted an end-of year review and didn’t think I should do two in one year!
Also thanks so so much for mentioning me as one of your favourite bloggers, you’re definitely one of mine as well and I always look forwards to seeing posts from you or comments so we can discuss something! 😀 You’re one of the best people I’ve met on WordPress so far. ❤
I think if I was going to do a drinking game based on how many times you mentioned TRC I'd be on the floor now! But I feel the same about my blog recently and the amount of times I've mentioned the Shades of Magic series! Favourite books are like that aren't they?
I loved reading all your answers for these, I reckon some of mine will be the same because you featured so many amazing books on this one, but I will say oh I love Newt so much as well! ❤ 😀

Aww, Beth. You’re the sweetest! You and your blog inspire me so much, so thank you for that ♥

Hahahaha. Yeah, it’s probably better for both of us if we don’t partake. Shades of Magic was one of my favourites too. I love the world and characters so much. At least we both had books that we loved to pieces last year!

Hopefully I’ll be able to post it tomorrow. I have it in my drafts folder just waiting to be finished and then published! 😀
That’s wonderful to hear, honestly it means so much to me that you think that Lauren. Yeah I learnt a while back alcohol and blogging don’t mix!
It’s one of the reasons we read I guess, to find the books we love to pieces! 😀
That’s all right. ❤

Wow that was certainly an epic post! And thank you for the mention 😂I so so so need to get onto V.E. Schwab! I think that might be one of my challenges for this year. I always find it so weird writing these end of year wrap up posts because now we have a whole new year just ahead of us and anything could happen! I feel like yes! I can totally read 5,000 books this year haha

The Book Thief absolutely crushed my soul. IT WAS PHENOMENAL. illuminae was also great! Maggie Stiefvater was also one author that I read this year only, but she has been promoted to one of my all time fave ones. I am feeling sad that we don’t have a new book from her to look forward in 2017…

Ahh, riiiiight. I know everyone talked about how sad it was, but I still had NO IDEA!! I love Maggie’s writing so much. I’m hoping to read some of her older works this year. I knowww!! It’s a shame. At least we have the Ronan trilogy to look forward too!!

Aaaah, this is awesome! You had an amazing reading year and I’m super glad we found each other’s blogs! Here’s for an even better 2017 😀 Also, I need to read most of these books ASAP haha. Especially Homegoing. You really sold it.

You’re right 127 sounds A LOT more impressive than 50 though hahaha 😂😂 buuuut you’ve read a lot of great ones among that 50! I love Homegoing, The Raven King, AGOS, Gemina/Illuminae, The Hidden Oracle, and Six of Crows! ❤ I'm also REALLY EXCITED for Caraval and A Quiet Kind of Thunder!! Been hearing so many great things about it and those covers = perfection 😛 also do you know that you can order AQKOT from TBD already? They say they'll ship it in 2 days but I'm not sure, it hasn't been officially release, right? Anyway, thank you for linking up to my blog and hope you have a fantastic year, Lauren! 😀

I’m forever grateful to comics and graphic novels providing the illusion that I can read a lot 😂 So glad we share so many of the same favourites 😀 They were all such amazing books!! I feel like you’ll love them both!! And ooh no. I didn’t know that. It’s not released until 12th Jan, but in the past I’ve heard that TBD sometimes ships things off early so haha. No worries ♥ You and your blog are both wonderful!!

Hahaha, awww sorry 🙈 Sorry to hear things don’t go as well as you hoped, but don’t be too hard on yourself 😀 Any amount of reading/blogging is great ♥ Honestly most of those were graphic novels and comics so it looks a lot more impressive 😅 Happy New Year 😀

AHHH, I’m so excited to read Caraval! I loved being able to read through this post; it actually brought so many memories back from throughout this year :’) Thanks so much, Lauren, and thank you so much for being such a great friend and fellow blogger throughout 2016. Here’s to a great 2017!

It was so good! I hope you enjoy it!!! Aww, yay ♥ Even if 2016 was a bit of a messy year at least there were lots of good books 😀 So glad we managed to meet this year! I hope your 2017 is amazing too, Katherine!!

Congrats on surpassing your GoodReads goal! I completely failed on mine 😂. There’s always this year though. Also, that GR plugin. I wish I would have known that existed forever ago. I would have saved my TBR book adding self so much time haha. I really need to get around to finished The Raven Cycle series this year and finally reading Illuminae. Both of them are top after ADSOM. And I can’t wait to read Caraval. I’ve heard nothing but great things about that book. I hope you accomplish all of your goals in 2017 and that you have a great year, Lauren!! 💕

Aw, thank you!! I feel like I definitely wouldn’t have been able to do it without comics or graphic novels hahaha. And aww, sorry to hear you didn’t meet yours, but it’s all good 😀 😀 The books will always be there!!

The extension is so amazing. I can’t imagine my life without it now haha.

Yesss!! So excited for you to read all of them because I love them so much!!!

Oh my god THANK YOU SO MUCH for mentioning that Goodreads right click extension thing! I can’t believe I’ve never heard about it before and it’s going to save soooo much time considering how often I look things up and have to type all of it manually. I don’t know how I’ve never thought that Goodreads has an extension before… a lot of those big sites do, haha.

And thank you so much for mentioning me! As you already know, you’re also one of my faves and I’m honoured to be your friend in the blogosphere and can’t wait for another year of continued discussions and interaction and just book chats. 💞

Haha, no worries!!! I’m so glad I was introduced to it because I honestly can not imagine my life without it now. I used to do the manual thing too and the amount of time the extension saves is insane. It’s great having the “Search Later” option too because it opens a background tab so it’s like yessss.

Of course ♥♥ I remember when I found your blog when I first started blogging and I was like so inspired by it so thank you 😀 It’s so great being able to call you a friend too!! Here’s to an amazing 2017 for both of us ♥

YES, Lauren, you made me read Iluminae and pushed me to read Gemina a bit sooner than I thought I would, and I REGRET NOTHING. Except maybe I lost my mind a bit over how crazy this whole story is. Otherwise I guess I’m doing okay hahaha.
I am so eager for you to read Simon and Aristotle, both books are so great, I loved them. I hope you will too! 🙂 And I am highly anticipating The Love Interest as well, it sounds SO GOOD.
Wishing you a wonderful 2017 filled with great reads, Lauren!

Ahh Lauren thank you so much for mentioning me! You’re one of my absolute favourite blogs, and I look forward to every single one of your posts. I’m so glad to have met you! ♥♥

Honestly, every time I go into a bookshop I keep an eye out for Illuminae because of how much I know you love it haha! I desperately need to read The Raven King but I’m so bad for not wanting series to end and just…avoiding the last book forever?? I was so excited for it to come out, so I’ve no idea why I’m like this.

Also Newt!! How is he so adorable?? I was so surprised by how much I loved Fantasic Beasts, but he definitely has a huge portion of my love for it hahaha.

Haha, yay! That makes me so happy. It’s honestly so amazing. I hope you can read it soon 😀 I know what you mean!! It’s honestly why I’ve put off finishing so many series. I feel like it was definitely a great ending for the series though.

He is the cutest!! I was surprised by how much I loved it too. I was pleasantly surprised.

You read so many good ones!! I just love The Raven Cycle series. I am really looking forward to Heartless, so I hope I’m not disappointed. I did really dislike Three Dark Crowns. That was a big disappointment for me this year.

It’s honestly the best ♥ Heartless wasn’t terrible, it just wasn’t for me. So many people loved it, but it was just way too romance-y for me. I did really did enjoy the setting though. I hope you enjoy it!!! Yeah, I was pretty disappointed with that too. I felt like Kendare was holding back because she’s so good at writing darkly.

What a great post! Sorry I’m so behind!
I’m glad to be a new blogger buddy in 2016! And I’m glad you liked A Fierce and Subtle Poison bc I bought it on sale and people haven’t said good things about it…so I was worried!
😊

I read Night Film last year as well & loved it even though it was waaaaaay out of my comfort zone. Like way, WAYYYYY out xD And aoufoiejio I STILL haven’t read Illuminae (it’s sitting on my shelf, Lauren so IT’LL HAPPEN, I SWEAR!) Simon vs the Homo Sapiens and Ari & Dante have literally been on my TBR since the beginning of time & I still don’t know why I haven’t read them yet! Hopefully we’ll both get to them this year 😉

I’m so happy you read it and loved it!!!!! Sometimes reading out of your comfort zone can really pay off 😀 YESSS READ ILLUIMINAE!!!!! I read them both in one day at the start of the year 😂 and I LOVED THEM. I hope you enjoy them when you pick them up ♥

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